Word: passer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again the law whirred on the wheels of men's blurry memories: again witnesses pointed unequivocally at Shephard as the bad-check passer. "I stood there handcuffed while they swore my life away," he said later. The judge gave him 18 months in the penitentiary. When it was over he was arrested a third time, but a grand jury refused to indict for the simple reason that he had been behind bars at the time of the new crime. A banker on the grand jury listened overtime to Shephard's story of innocence and sent...